Professor Dario Petri has been confirmed head of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento.
The Department Council elected him a second time with 31 votes, 2 blank votes, 1 void. Of the 54 eligible voters, 34 cast their ballot.
As a candidate Petri received widespread support within the department, and on 1 October he will start his second and last mandate which will end in 2021.
The election took place last 20 June in Povo at Polo Ferrari 2.
Dario Petri, full professor of electrical and electronic measurements, was born in 1957 in Bassano del Grappa and earned his master’s and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Padova. Petri started his academic career at the universities of Padova and Perugia and in 2002 arrived at the University of Trento where, among other things, he has been a member of the Evaluation Group, of the Quality Assurance Committee, and of the Committee for recruitment and career advancement, as well as director of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science.
He was a member of the National expert group on the evaluation of research in Industrial and Information Engineering and president of the Associazione nazionale Gruppo di Misure elettriche ed elettroniche. Former president of the Italian Section of the IEEE, which brings together about 5,000 researchers involved in Information engineering in Italy, he is the coordinator of the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative in Trento; he is also a Fellow member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements.
Dario Petri is the author and co-author of some 300 papers which appeared in international journals and international and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His research work covers different fields and focuses mainly on design and characterization of data acquisition systems, embedded systems, electronic appliances, the foundations of measurement theory and measures for quality management.